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tho hinder part of this superciliary streak ashy like the sides of the 

 neck ; car-cororts brown, washed with rufous on their upper mar- 

 gin, and streaked with bufFy-white shaft-lines ; cheeks and under- 

 parts white, the sides of the breast ashy brown, the flanks and sides, 

 as well as the under tail-coverts, fulvous browu, as also the thighs, 

 the hocks of the knee being rufous; axillaries fulvous ; under wing- 

 coverts creamj^ buff, mottled with blackish near the outer edge, 

 the lower series ashy rufous ; quills light brown below, ashy rufous 

 along the inner web. Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 0'7, wing 2*7, 

 tail 4-9, tarsus 1-1. 



Adult fcmilt'. Differs from the male above described only in 

 having sni;dl brown spots and streaks on tho lower throat and fore 

 neck. Total length 9-25 inches, culmen 07, wing 2-85, tail 4-1, 

 tarsus 1-1. 



Nab. Timor. 



a. J ad. sk. East Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 h. 2 ad. sk. East Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



8. Megalurus albolimbatus. 



Poodytes albolimbatus, D' Albert. <§- Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civic. Genov. 

 xiv. p. 87 (1879); Salvad. op. cit. xvi. p. 189 (1880); id. Orn. 

 Papuasia etc. p. 422 (1881). 



Adult male (Fly River ; D'Albertis : type of species). General 

 colour above ferruginous, tho head, lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts uniform, excepting a slight indication of dusky striations 

 on tho head ; mantle and upper back more fulvous, the feathers 

 broadly centred with black ; wing-coverts black, with rufous-buff 

 margins, a little paler on the outer median coverts and bastard-wing 

 feathers ; quills black, edged with rufous-buff, the inner secon- 

 daries conspicuously bordered with white on both webs, aU tho 

 other quills narrowly fringed with whitish at the tips ; tail-feathers 

 dusky brown, with broad margins of dull rufous ; lores and a di- 

 stinct eyebrow yellowish buff, the latter whiter ; feathers round the 

 eye and ear-coverts yellowish buff, rufescent along the upper edge 

 of the ear-coverts ; cheeks, throat, and under surface of body white, 

 with a wash of yellowish buff on the fore neck and chest, deepening 

 into tawny fulvous on the Hanks and thighs, the under tail-coverts 

 again a little paler ; under wing-coverts pale fulvous, the quills ashy 

 brown below, pale rufescent along the edge of the inner web ; " bill 

 brown, the lower mandible whitish ; feet fleshy ; iris chestnut " 

 {D'Albertis). Total length 5*4 inches, culmen 0'6o, wing 2-25, 

 tail 2'35, tarsus 0'85. {Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male, but a little duUer. 

 Total lengtli b'i inches, culmen 0"tj, wing 2-15, tail 2-35, tarsus 

 OSb. {Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Hub. South-eastern Xew Guinea. 



